Four areas where better evidence changes decisions
Nepal already collects a great deal of data. What's missing is analysis that compares places, tracks change over time and reaches the people who decide. We start with four areas.
Local government
How Nepal's 753 local governments raise, spend and deliver, measured and compared.
Migration
Who leaves, from where, and what it means for the districts and families left behind.
Starting Nov 2026Agriculture
Market prices, seasons and supply: when a price is normal and when it signals trouble.
Starting Nov 2026Climate risk
Floods, landslides and drought, mapped against the places and people exposed to them.
More areas will follow as the Lab grows.
Evidence you can check
Every number traceable
Each chart names its data source and year. Clean data and code are kept for every published figure.
No side taken
We measure delivery, not personalities. We publish our methods before our results and name every funder.
Down to the place
National averages hide Nepal's differences. We report by province, district and palika wherever the data is reliable.
- Local and provincial governments planning budgets and services
- Development partners deciding where and how to work
- Banks and investors weighing where to lend and invest
- Journalists and researchers who need numbers they can trust
A new lab, built in the open
Nepal Insights Lab was founded in 2026 by Aditya Joshi, a data and policy analyst working between Nepal and Australia. We publish a new data story every two weeks and are always glad to hear from officials, development partners, researchers and journalists who work with Nepal's data.
When is a vegetable price spike unusual?
Our first data story uses ten years of wholesale prices from Kathmandu's Kalimati market to show each vegetable's normal seasonal range, and when prices break out of it.